The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-03
THE BILL BY SECTIONS.
Discussing the Coercion Mea-Hre la ia,
House of Commons.

House of Commons
LONDON. May 2.-In the House q
Commons. tonight. Mr.. Healv move,
that the first clause of the Grimes Bill l..
SO amended as To indicate clearly To wha
portions of Ireland the hill will be ap
plicable. He suggested that the word
proclaimed districts" be omitted am,
that " Kerry. Londonderry and Belfast
be inserted in their stead
Secretary Belfour declined Ia acced.
to this proposal. He said the Govern
ment intended To apply the clause to nj
parts of Ireland where the prevalence OF
crime justified such action.
Mr.. Healy asked IL blood-stained Bel
fast, where troops had been shot and 100
lc"men murdered, was Ia go free Will,
miserable rack rented districts in ia,
southwest were la BE- punished.
Mr.. Balfour replied that the Goyeru
m"nt would exercise perfect impartialit,
IN suppressing disorder everywhere.
| labouchere said the scope and aim oi
the bill was Ia crush out the Nationalist.
leaving the Orangemen Ia do ANYTHING
they liked The administration ur the
law was SO bound up with the Orange
faction that it could not be impartial.
MIR. GLADSTONE SPEAKS.
Mr.. Gladstone suggested that the
words proclaimed districts" remain.
but that the districts be defined under
other clauses of the bill. The answer IF
Mr.. Balfour that all district, would bc
treated impartially was not sufficient.
because the Ministers had often referred
to particular parts of ireland where the
bill was meant To operate. No doubt
the people of Belfast regarded with dis
gust and horror the prevalence of disor-
der IN their midst. but the same apology
was equally good for other districts.
Hear The conduct Of some person, in
Belfast, recently, stained the name of
ireland more than the conduct at the
people of amy other part Of ireland had
ICheers.
CHURCHlIL's REPLY.
Lord Randolph Churchill said that the
suggestion Mr.. Gladstone had made
might have been valuable. but lis value
had been destroyed by the raising of
points which were calculated to lead Ia
controversy. Mr.. Gladstone had made
himself a party to the insinuation that
the Government intended Ia apply the
clause only Ia certain farts of Ireland
and leave Belfast ont. There had been
disorder in Belfast, but the law had not
been arrested. There was no
apology between the riots IN Belfast and
''moonlighting" in Kerry. for which not
"A single person had been made amena-
bile Ia justice. No one would venture to
assert that iurics in the North Of ireland
had failed to do their duty, as was often
the ease with juries in the South Of Ire
land. To put the diabolcal outrages of
the South of ireland. as Mr. Gladstone
did, on the samelevel with the disturb
ances in Belfast was 10 condone and
apologize for those outrages. lCheers.
MIR. Healey replied that over 300 per-
sons were manned for life and some
killed in the Belfast riots. and that only
a few of the rioters had been punished.
He said the statement was untrue that
there had been no cvictions in Kerry.
There had been over twenty Major |
Holmes said that not singl" moon
Lighter" had ever been convicted II was |
only by "A change of venue that any con
victions could be obtained
Mr.. Healey postponed his motion in |
Difference To Mr.. Gladstone's suggestion. |